Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch: In both modes, host can decide the number of peds, the flow of traffic, the intervention of police and the weapons. (The previewers tried playing a Team deathmatch, all of them equipped with rocket launchers. Almost half of the city lighten up shortly with series of explosion caused by them.)

Race & GTA Race: The host can decide the choice on vehicles and number of laps.

Mafia and Team Mafia: The player will assume him/herself as a henchman to Kenny Petrovic and will be competing with other players to complete hits (ordered by Kenny over the phone) before the rivals can.

Cops N'Crooks: In this mode, a group of player will act as cops, the rest as criminals. The cops can see criminals' location on their GPS and will make sure the criminals don't escape alive. On the other hand, the criminals will have no clue where the cops are.

Hangman's NOOSE: In the single player mission called 'Hangman's NOOSE', there will be co-op, where you and your friends will be escorting a mafia mobster, while ambushed by the NOOSE (GTA IV version of SWAT).

i hope that free mode is available in offline play. Secondly, @ phreak, how am I supposed to interpret that. Are you scared that it may be less fun then you hoped, or scared its going to be too much fun?

# Your online character is fully customizable. You can alter his race, sex, hair, clothing etc.

# In Race and GTA Race, the host gets to decide which vehicles are involved, and the number of laps to be played. You can shoot and throw molotovs from the window, and even steal your rivals' car.

# In Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, the host gets to decide the number of pedestrians, the amount of traffic, the intervention of police (or not), and the type of weapons.

# In Cops N Crooks, one team play as cops and the other play as criminals. The cops must stop the criminals from escaping. They can monitor the locations of the criminals on their GPS systems, while the criminals don't know where the cops are.

# In Mafia Work and Team Mafia Work, you play as one of Kenny Petrovic's mafia henchmen. You must complete hits ordered by the boss (via the cellphone) before your rivals are able to do so.

# The map used in multiplayer is the same map that is used for single player.

# A single-player mission called "Hangman's NOOSE" features co-op. You and your friends will be able to escort a mobster, while being pursused by a SWAT team.

Wow, I'm a big online multiplayer type of guy and this sounds so fucking amazing. Being able to control the flow of pedestrians and cars is incredible, hopefully you can blend in with the crowd if your gun isn't out then you can take out the other player when they least expect you. Ahhh rockstar has me sprung, I already give this game a 10 and I haven't played it. Too good to be true